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Behind the Headlines: An Englishman Abroad

Date released

9 Oct 1958

Series name

Universal News

Issue no

2946

NoS ID

159009

Story no

4 / 8

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Englishman Abroad, An (1983 Video)

Director

John Schlesinger

Producer

Innes Lloyd

Subject

Drama

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 60 min., 1995 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Coral Browne plays herself in a dramatisation written by Alan Bennett of her chance meeting with the exiled spy Guy Burgess, played by Alan Bates, and the relationship that develops between them. The play...

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Englishman Abroad, An (1983 Television)

Director

John Schlesinger

Producer

Innes Lloyd

Made-for-television film. Acclaimed recreation of the meeting between actress Coral Browne and British spy and defector Guy Burgess, in Moscow in 1958. The initial meeting took place in a theatre, where...

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LBC Charles Heidsieck Champagne interview (1989)

aka: Bob Holness in conversation with Alan Bennett

Alan Bennett, playwright and actor, talks in front of an audience at The Barbican about his double-bill ‘Single Spies’. Currently running at the National Theatre, the double bill consists of ‘An...

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Media Screen Round-up December 2016

Date

17 Jan 2017, 10:18

Author

Andrew Ormsby

Post Type

Post

The monthly round-up of film and television publications compiled by Simon Baker, Institute of Historical Research and published at Learning on Screen by Andrew Ormsby. Zoë Shacklock's article 'On Not...

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Alan Bennett at the BBC (2009)

Director

Richard Eyre; John Schlesinger; Stephen Frears; Stuart Burge; Udayan Prasad

Subject

Drama; Television studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL), £30.63

This collection brings together many of Alan Bennett’s previously unreleased BBC productions dating from 1972 through to 1994. It includes his first television play, ‘A Day Out’; autobiographical...

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Mansfield Park (2007 Television)

Director

Iain B. MacDonald

Producer

Suzan Harrison

Television adaptation, heavily abridged, of Jane Austen’s novel. The scene in Chapter 34 in which Henry Crawford endeavours to recommend himself to Fanny Price by reading aloud from various characters in...

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